Bowle-Evans and Southee
were caught in the avalanche and Chartrand managed to escape it.
Chartrand then rescued Southee and together they found and dug out
Bowle-Evans, a former president of the B.C. heli-gliding association.

"They performed CPR on him for about half an hour," said Kennedy, but Bowle-Evans died.

Officials said it took the two men about 10 hours to walk out of the backcountry area.

Bowle-Evans's body was recovered overnight.

It is the 11th death in an avalanche in Western Canada this winter.

John
Kelly, of the Canadian Avalanche Centre, said Canada is on its way
toward an exceptional number of avalanche-related deaths.

"And
the worst is yet to come in terms of the months with the highest
average number of avalanche accidents, and that's January, February and
March," he added.

RCMP Cpl. Barry Kennedy said the three were backcountry skiing about
five kilometres from the top of Kicking Horse ski resort, in an
out-of-bounds area called Canyon Creek.

Bowle-Evans and Southee were caught in the avalanche and Chartrand
managed to escape it. Chartrand then rescued Southee and together they
found and dug out Bowle-Evans, a former president of the B.C.
heli-gliding association.

"They performed CPR on him for about half an hour," said Kennedy, but Bowle-Evans died.

Officials said it took the two men about 10 hours to walk out of the backcountry area.

Bowle-Evans's body was recovered overnight.

It is the 11th death in an avalanche in Western Canada this winter.

John
Kelly, of the Canadian Avalanche Centre, said Canada is on its way
toward an exceptional number of avalanche-related deaths.

"And
the worst is yet to come in terms of the months with the highest
average number of avalanche accidents, and that's January, February and
March," he added.